Rosebud Falls Slideshow

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vsmith

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December 2001
From: Smoggy L.A.
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Posted by vsmith on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:45 PM

I think it was this one, Mt Lowe is near where I live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc_lqdHyNNs

Here's another little Mt Lowe tidbit I found on Youtube, all thats left today is the now fireroad ROW and a few ruins. Road this on a MTB up to the Alpine Tavern ruins when I was a younger man

PS nice progress on the layout

Have fun with your trains

ttrigg

Member since
February 2004
From: North, San Diego Co., CA
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Posted by ttrigg on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:26 AM

Rex: The grade on the way up to the top of the falls is about 22.5%, the tricky part of that route is the double tight "S" curve. Three-foot Diameter, Yes you read that correctly 3' Dia. The only equipment I have that can make the climb is a streetcar and a handcar. I know full well that I have sentenced the streetcar to an early death, but that is what SWMBO and I wanted. The house is a 1:18 dollhouse I made for my daughter, 19 years ago. It only goes out on special occasion.

Mr. Ash: That would be Z scale.

Toad: Sometime back Vic had a pic of the Mt Lowe tram as part of his sig block. Since my wife is from Sierra Madre, she immediately took a liking to him. She asked him a question and when she got his answer back she immediately said I had to name something after him. I do not recall what the question was, but since this was my feeble attempt to produce a facsimile of the Mt. Lowe line, naming the chalet after a fellow admirer of the Mt Lowe system seemed appropriate.

Tom Trigg

Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 19, 2008 11:28 PM

Very nice guys!

Triggy, just one thing (1) how did Vic get his name on the house

Toad

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Mr_Ash

Member since
October 2007
From: SW Chicago Suburbs
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Posted by Mr_Ash on Monday, May 19, 2008 10:55 PM

Nice Pictures!

I like the Garden RR within a Garden RR picture "Douglas Flatbottom shows friends and nieghbors his garden railroad" what is that N scale?

Rex in Pinetop

Member since
February 2007
From: Arizona (high country 7k ft) USA
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Posted by Rex in Pinetop on Monday, May 19, 2008 9:59 PM

Tom,

Great work! What is the grade on that run going up to the top of the mountain? It really looks steep in the pictures. I liked the victorian buildings. Where did you get those or did you build them?

Rex